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rook


rook 1[roo k] ExamplesWord Origin noun

  1. a black, European crow, Corvus frugilegus, noted for its gregarious habits.
  2. a sharper at cards or dice; swindler.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cheat; fleece; swindle.

Origin of rook 1 before 900; Middle English rok(e), Old English hrōc; cognate with Old Norse hrōkr, Old High German hruoh Related Words for rooked fool, scam, cheat, swindle, bilk, betray, deceive, hoodwink, con, fleece, defraud, steal, bamboozle Examples from the Web for rooked Contemporary Examples of rooked

  • Many of those who voted for President Clinton, Bork averred, did so because they were rooked by devious liberal lies.

    Speed Read: Best Bits From Robert Bork’s ‘Slouching Towards Gomorrah’

    Michael Moynihan

    December 20, 2012

  • Historical Examples of rooked

  • Most likely had rooked somebody of a few dollars at cards overnight.

    Within the Tides

    Joseph Conrad

  • Hands down, without a struggle, the Paliser estate was rooked.

    The Paliser case

    Edgar Saltus

  • I’ll try to show you enough about the game so you don’t get rooked.

    Starman’s Quest

    Robert Silverberg

  • What has become of the six hundred you rooked from our table last month?

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    Rudyard Kipling

  • What has became of the six hundred you rooked from our table last month?

    Soldiers Three

    Rudyard Kipling

  • British Dictionary definitions for rooked rook 1 noun

    1. a large Eurasian passerine bird, Corvus frugilegus, with a black plumage and a whitish base to its bill: family Corvidae (crows)
    2. slang a swindler or cheat, esp one who cheats at cards

    verb

    1. (tr) slang to overcharge, swindle, or cheat

    Word Origin for rook Old English hrōc; related to Old High German hruoh, Old Norse hrōkr rook 2 noun

    1. a chesspiece that may move any number of unoccupied squares in a straight line, horizontally or verticallyAlso called: castle

    Word Origin for rook C14: from Old French rok, ultimately from Arabic rukhkh Word Origin and History for rooked rook n.1

    “European crow,” Old English hroc, from Proto-Germanic *khrokaz (cf. Old Norse hrokr, Middle Dutch roec, Dutch roek, Middle Swedish roka, Old High German hruoh “crow”), possibly imitative of its raucous voice (cf. Gaelic roc “croak,” Sanskrit kruc “to cry out”). Used as a disparaging term for persons since at least c.1500, and extended by 1570s to mean “a cheat,” especially at cards or dice.

    rook n.2

    chess piece, c.1300, from Old French roc, from Arabic rukhkh, from Persian rukh, of unknown meaning, perhaps somehow related to the Indian name for the piece, rut, from Hindi rath “chariot.” Confused in Middle English with roc.

    rook v.

    “to defraud by cheating” (originally especially in a game), 1590s, from rook (n.1) in some sense (e.g. “a gull, simpleton,” but this is not attested until 17c.). Related: Rooked; rooking.

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